Our District	Change from Last Year
Total Number of Teachers	130	Down from 172
Percent of K-3 teachers who are certified in Read to Succeed reading certification	30.0	Up from 28.0
Percent of teachers with advanced degrees	53.1	Down from 70.3
Teacher attendance rate	94.3	Up from 92.5
Average teacher salary	$49,913	Down from $50,348
Percent of teachers on continuing contract	77.7	Down from 98.8
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - current year	61.7	Down from 81.2
Percent of teachers returning from previous year - three year average	75.6	Down from 82.1
Percent of teacher vacancies for more than 9 weeks	23.8	Up from 14.0
Prime instructional time	85.0	Up from 80.5
Student-teacher ratio in core subjects	21.3 to 1	Down from 26.9 to 1
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	No change
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in low poverty schools	0	No change
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in low poverty schools	N/A	N/A
Percent of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	8.0	Down from 23.7
Number of inexperienced teachers teaching in high poverty schools	2	Down from 66
Percent of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	7	Down from 8
Number of inexperienced school leaders teaching in high poverty schools	2	Up from 1
Percent of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	48.0	Up from 26.3
Number of out-of-field teachers teaching in high poverty schools	12	Down from 73
Percent of inexperienced teachers	7.4	Down from 23.7
Number of inexperienced teachers	16	Down from 66
Percent of out-of-field teachers	54.4	Up from 26.3
Number of out-of-field teachers	118	Up from 73

Inexperienced Teacher- a teacher with less than 4 years of experience.
Inexperienced School Leader- a School Administrator that has not completed their formal evaluation process (Tier 1)
Out of Field Teacher- a teacher teaching a course or courses outside their field of certification when a certification is required for that course.

ESSA regulations require states to post on their report cards information about teachers with emergency or provisional credentials. South Carolina does not award emergency or provisional credentials, thus that metric is not listed.